Data principal
The person whose personal data is being collected or used.
For example
When a shop collects your phone number, you are the data principal.
Learn it through a story
- The Data Privacy Clause Nobody Reads (Cybersecurity for Juniors 2, Ch 8)
Related terms
- Data leakage When an AI reveals private information it saw in training or in a chat.
- Data minimisation Collecting only the data actually needed for a service to function.
- Data poisoning Adding bad examples to training data to change what an AI learns.
- Data provenance A record of where each piece of data came from.
- Deepfake A fake photo or video of a real person, made with AI.
- Default credentials Factory-set usernames and passwords, identical across every unit of a device.